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Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Re: Press Announcement for KDE 3.4
From: Achim Woessner <boldii () gmx ! de>
Date: 2005-03-15 14:03:51
Message-ID: 200503151504.00916.boldii () gmx ! de
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On Tuesday, 15. March 2005 10:53, Tom Chance wrote:
> Thanks for the other comments. Achim, do you want to take tackat's
> comments and my press release, then put them together for the finished
>announcement and press releases?
Hi everybody,
I included your changes and suggestions to the attached php file, I would
have commited it to CVS but I have no CVS account ;).
What we still need is a quote and a good phrase for the DBUS/HAL thing, I
will try to make one up but if you know a good one I would appreciate that
very much.
Cheers,
Achim Woessner
["announce-3.4.php" (application/x-php)]
<?php
$page_title = "Announcing KDE 3.4";
$site_root = "../";
include "header.inc";
?>
<div style="width: 100%; height: 60px; background: red; border: 3px black \
solid;">This is a draft! DO NOT PUBLISH URL before announced!</div>
<p>DATELINE MARCH 16, 2004</p>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.kde.org">KDE Project</a> ships a new major release of their \
flagship Open Source desktop environment. </p>
<img src="announce-3.4.jpeg" align="right" width="250" height="139" hspace="10" \
alt="Splash"/>
<p>
March 16, 2005 (The Internet) - After more than a half year of development
the KDE Project is happy to be able to announce a new major release of the
award-winning K Desktop Environment. Among the many new features that have
been incorporated, the improvements in accessibility are the most remarkable.
</p>
<p>
One of the milestones in this new release will be advanced KDE
Text-to-speech framework. It integrates into KPDF, Kate, Konqueror, and
KSayIt, and it allows to read out notifications from all KDE
applications. Especially partially-sighted people and speech-impaired
users will benefit, but it should also prove a fun desktop experience
overall.
</p>
<p>
For people with low vision, several high contrast themes including a
complete monochrome icon set have been added. Other accessibility
applications have been improved. KMouseTool which can click the mouse for
people with, for example, carpal tunnel syndrome or tendinitis; KMouth to
allow the computer to speak for the speech impaired; and KMagnifier to
magnify sections of screen for partially-sighted users. Standard
accessibility features including "Sticky Keys", "Slow Keys" and "Bounce
Keys" are also available and are now more easily accessed via keyboard
gestures. All of these features combine to open the world of computing to
a much wider audience and to a section of the population that is often
overlooked. The KDE project will continue its close cooperation with the
accessibility community to reach even more people in the future.
</p>
<p>
$high_profile_figure said about the new release, that "$snappy_quote".
</p>
<p>
With KDE being based on an international community there are more than 49
translations available and even more to be expected for future service packs
of KDE 3.4. This is why KDE serves best the needs of today's world
wide Linux community.</p>
<p>
KDE 3.4 is available for free under Open Source licenses and boasts
eighteen packages of optional applications including accessibility,
development, games, PIM, network, utilities, administration,
edutainment, multimedia, graphics and more.</p>
<h3>Highlights At A Glance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Text-to-speech system with support built into Konqueror, Kate, KPDF and the
standalone application KSayIt</li>
<li>Support for text to speech synthesis is integrated with the desktop</li>
<li>A new high contrast style and a complete monochrome icon set</li>
<li>An icon effect to paint all icons in two chosen colors, converting third party \
application icons into high contrast monochrome icons</li> <li>!!!!!FIXME!!!!!!!The \
new DBUS/HAL-media-kioslave combination allows the user to insert external pluggable \
storage media to be mounted and displayed on the desktop instanly and \
unmounted/removed from the desktop as soon as the media are removed.!!!!!FIXME!!!!! \
<li>Completely redesigned, more flexible trash system</li> <li>Kicker with improved \
look and feel</li> <li>KPDF now enables you to select, copy & paste text and images \
from PDFs, along with many other improvements</li> <li>Kontact supports now various \
groupware servers, including eGroupware, GroupWise, Kolab, OpenGroupware.org and \
SLOX</li> <li>Better synchronization between 2 PCs</li>
<li>Kopete supports Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime and gets integrated
into Kontact</li>
<li>Akregator allows you to read news from your favourite RSS-enabled websites in one \
application</li> <li>Juk has now an album cover management via Google Image \
Search</li> <li>KMail now stores passwords securely with KWallet</li>
<li>SVG files can now be used as wallpapers</li>
<li>KPrinter now has complete built-in help via 'WhatsThis'</li>
<li>KHTML plug-ins are now configurable, so the user can selectively disable
ones that are not used. This does not include Netscape-style plug-ins.
Netscape plug-in in CPU usage can be manually lowered, and plug-ins are more
stable.</li>
<li>more than 6500 bugs have been fixed</li>
<li>more than 1700 wishes have been fullfilled</li>
<li>more than 63000 code, documentation and other contributions have been committed \
to CVS</li> </ul>
<p>
For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.3 release, please refer to \
the KDE 3.4 Change Log. <p>
<h3>Getting KDE 3.4</h3>
<p>
Full information on how to download and install KDE 3.4 is available on
our official website at <a \
href="http://www.kde.org/info/3.4.php">http://www.kde.org/info</a>. Being free and \
open source software, it is available for download at no cost. If you use a major \
Linux distribution then precompiled packages may be available from your \
distributions website or from <a \
href="http://download.kde.org/">http://download.kde.org</a>. The source code can also \
be downloaded from here. If you prefer to build KDE from source you should consider \
using <a href="http://developer.kde.org/build/konstruct/">Konstruct</a>, a tool that \
automatically downloads, configures and builds KDE 3.4 for you.
</p>
<p>
Many more KDE applications are freely available from <a \
href="http://www.kde-apps.org/">KDE-Apps.org</a> and different look and feel \
improvents can be downloaded from <a \
href="http://www.kde-look.org/">KDE-Look.org</a>. </p>
<h3>Supporting KDE</h3>
<p>
KDE is an open source project that exists and grows only because of the
help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE
is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether its
help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation,
translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully
appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the <a \
href="http://www.kde.org/support/">Supporting KDE" page</a> for further information. \
<br> We look forward to hearing from you soon!
</p>
<h4>
About KDE
</h4>
<p align="justify">
KDE is an independent project of hundreds of developers, translators,
artists and other professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet
to create and freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable
desktop and office environment employing a flexible, component-based,
network-transparent architecture and offering an outstanding development
platform. KDE provides a stable, mature desktop, a full, component-based
office suite (<a href="http://www.koffice.org/">KOffice</a>), a large
set of networking and administration tools and utilities, and an
efficient, intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE
<a href="http://www.kdevelop.org/">KDevelop</a>. KDE is working proof
that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development model can yield
first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex
commercial software.
</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="98%" align="center" />
<p align="justify">
<font size="2">
<em>Trademark Notices.</em>
KDE and K Desktop Environment are trademarks of KDE e.V.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and
other countries.
All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are
the property of their respective owners.
</font>
</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="98%" align="center" />
<h4>Press Contacts</h4>
<table cellpadding="10"><tr valign="top">
<td>
<b>Africa</b><br />
Uwe Thiem<br />
P.P.Box 30955<br />
Windhoek<br />
Namibia<br />
Phone: +264 - 61 - 24 92 49<br />
<a href="mailto:info-africa@kde.org">info-africa \
kde.org</a><br /> </td>
<td>
<b>Asia</b><br />
Sirtaj S. Kang <br />
C-324 Defence Colony <br />
New Delhi <br />
India 110024 <br />
Phone: +91-981807-8372 <br />
<a href="mailto:info-asia@kde.org">info-asia \
kde.org</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>
<b>Europe</b><br />
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer<br />
Rysktorp<br />
S-683 92 Hagfors<br />
Sweden<br />
Phone: +46-563-540023<br />
Fax: +46-563-540028<br />
<a href="mailto:info-europe@kde.org">info-europe \
kde.org</a> </td>
<td>
<b>North America</b><br />
George Staikos <br />
889 Bay St. #205 <br />
Toronto, ON, M5S 3K5 <br />
Canada<br />
Phone: (416)-925-4030 <br />
<a href="mailto:info-northa \
;merica@kde.org">info-northamerica \
kde.org</a><br /> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>Oceania</b><br />
Hamish Rodda<br />
11 Eucalyptus Road<br />
Eltham VIC 3095<br />
Australia<br />
Phone: (+61)402 346684<br />
<a href="mailto:info-oceania@kde.org">info-oceania \
kde.org</a><br /> </td>
<td>
<b>South America</b><br />
Helio Chissini de Castro<br />
R. José de Alencar 120, apto 1906<br />
Curitiba, PR 80050-240<br />
Brazil<br />
Phone: +55(41)262-0782 / +55(41)360-2670<br />
<a href="mailto:info-sout \
04;america@kde.org">info-southamerica \
kde.org</a><br /> </td>
</tr></table>
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